As more organisations seek to cut costs and improve
efficiencies, the use of cloud services is growing amongst South
African businesses. But director at Werksmans Attorneys,
Tammy Bortz, advises companies to undertake a comprehensive
technical and legal due diligence of cloud service providers before
using cloud services.
"A lack of guidelines, codes of conduct or standards for
cloud service providers in South Africa could leave businesses open
to risk," says Bortz. "While internationally there
are a number of organisations which have issued guidelines and
codes of conduct, there are no such frameworks locally."
Cloud computing is not new technology but rather a new way of
delivering computing services "on demand" whereby users
can turn the services on and off, scale up or down, depending on
need". Examples include Gmail and Google Apps. The
ability to turn the services on and off or scale up or down,
depending on the need has many benefits for companies,
